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RUSTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having accumulated rust
Example:
rusted hinges
Classified under:
Similar:
rusty (covered with or consisting of rust)
Antonym:
rustless (without rust)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb rust
Context examples:
"I might have stood and rusted in the forest till the end of the world."
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
When, at last, he walked into Dorothy's room and thanked her for rescuing him, he was so pleased that he wept tears of joy, and Dorothy had to wipe every tear carefully from his face with her apron, so his joints would not be rusted.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
"I have been holding that axe in the air ever since I rusted, and I'm glad to be able to put it down at last. Now, if you will oil the joints of my legs, I shall be all right once more."
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
"They are rusted so badly that I cannot move them at all; if I am well oiled I shall soon be all right again. You will find an oil-can on a shelf in my cottage."
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
So she oiled it, and as it was quite badly rusted the Scarecrow took hold of the tin head and moved it gently from side to side until it worked freely, and then the man could turn it himself.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
However, there came a day when I forgot to do this, and, being caught in a rainstorm, before I thought of the danger my joints had rusted, and I was left to stand in the woods until you came to help me.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
